indentured
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The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
To me, indentured wealth feels like something that should be disbanded.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024
That option obviously doesn't exist in the middle of the ocean — or, for that matter, even in countries like Indonesia, where indentured servitude still exists.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2024
A son of a once wealthy merchant family, Joyce was being sent to the West Indies to start his new life as an indentured servant.
From National Geographic • Jan. 11, 2024
By the 1630s, most people in colonial Virginia—whether they had chosen their life or not—were indentured servants.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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